All Smiles...

...For Daddy!

Water Fun!

Since we bought Ava her splash table for her birthday, we spend a lot of time outside playing. Ava loves to splash in the water, run through the sprinker, throw water at Shadow and play outside. It is great for us too as it will usually make her really tired for naptime. Here are some pictures that we took over the weekend. Sorry, but we are really bad at taking pictures of Isaac. He's not very active so the pictures are usually of him in his swing sleeping. He's doing very good. Getting bigger and bigger every day. He still grunts and groans all the time (usually he's still happy while doing this though) and we are trying several things to help relieve some of that. So far, some things are working but not completely.

Eating a snack in one of her favorite chairs!

Sleeping in his favorite spot! He's so adorable! :)

Our Little Girl is 2!!!

Tomorrow, Friday, May 14th, Ava will be 2 Years Old. We can't believe she is already 2 and is amazed at how much she has grown, changed and matured this past year. She is such a blessing to us and we love her so much. We celebrated on Monday with some of her friends at a local splash park. We will return to this splash park tomorrow to meet some other friends and then maybe go out for some pizza for dinner. While Papa and Nana were here, they gave her their gifts. Nana made her a pillow case that has her name on it. She thinks it is so cool and sleeps with it every night in her big girl (full size) bed. They also bought her a flower sprinkler and we got to try it out while they were here. This will be used all the time this summer! :) Thank you Papa and Nana. I'll update more later this weekend with more birthday pictures.

Ava with her new pillowcase. And it has 'bies", aka butterflies, on it.
First time in the sprinkler with Papa.

Not quite sure what to think.

Still thinking about it.

And here is a video of her playing in the sprinkler.

Sweet Siblings

Here are some cute pictures that I found of Ava and Isaac together. Ava is sweet with him for the most part. She is always such a big helper by bringing him a blanket, his pacifier, burp rags and anything else that we may need. She's such a good big sister.

Helping with his first bath.

1 Month Old

Isaac is already 1 month old. We can't believe how fast the past month as gone. He had his 1 month appointment today and weighed 9 lbs. 0 oz. and was 22 1/4 inches long. He's getting so big! Here are some pictures from the past weekend when my sister was here. Sorry about not posting pictures as often as I did with Ava. I'm trying to find the time! :)
Our Little Slugger

He's getting so big!

Ava in her princess dress. She wore this for church on Sunday for Isaac's dedication. Pictures to come soon. We had problems with our camera batteries and didn't get any. Our friend took some with his camera so we are hoping some of those turned out.

The Little Princess!

Ava and her Aunt Jenn!

The Little Man in his dedication outfit.

My Aunt Rocks shirt!

Aunt Jenn with our little man.

The three of us!

I love my sister! :) Thanks for coming Jenn!

Ava Meeting Isaac for the First Time

Here is the video we took when Ava met Isaac for the first time in the hospital.

Our Little Monkey

We got home on Tuesday afternoon. We are getting used to being a family of four and getting into a little bit of a routine. Ava just loves her little brother and is constantly running to him to say hi or give him a kiss or hug. When she leaves the house, she doesn't care about saying goodbye to mama or anyone else, but has to say goodbye to her brother! It's so sweet. Isaac has already had two doctors visits. The first one was just to see the doctor for the first time and to get started with our pediatrician. He weighed 6 lbs. 4 oz., which is more than 10% of his birth weight. Because of that, she wanted to see him again in two days to make sure that he started gaining weight. We went back today and we were shocked to find out that he now weighs 6 lbs. 13 oz.! What a good eater! :)

Mommy is doing good. Since we got home from the hospital, I have started to have severe headaches and had to go back to see my doctor to make sure everything was okay. Long story short, I have a spinal headache that is caused from the epidural and will go away slowly during the next two weeks. I am on strong pain medicine and can function much better as long as I'm taking the medicine. Pray it goes away before the two weeks and I don't have to rely on the medicine for too long.

We will try to keep this updated as much as possible. It is very difficult now with two kids! :)

Ava and Isaac in Ava's bed. Ava loved having him in her bed and was all smiles.

Our wonderful OB! He is a wonderful doctor and made the experience of having two kids wonderful!

Isaac sleeping! So cute!

Our cute little monkey!

Another pic of our monkey!

Isaac

Big Yawn!
Just relaxing in the hospital. So tiny!

Looks just like Ava as a baby!

More Pics of Isaac

Papa and Nana brought Ava to the hospital today to meet her little brother. She was very good and kept saying "baby". When they were leaving to go back home, she wondered why "baby" wasn't coming with her. So sweet.

Ava checking out Isaac
Nana and Isaac

Isaac Robert with Papa Robert :)

The Big Sister and Mommy

Ava holding Isaac for the first time. She was very careful and gave him a kiss and hug too. What a great big sister!

Isaac Robert Cattanach

Isaac Robert Cattanach is here! Born 4/11/10 at 9:22pm, 7 lbs. 1 oz., 20 inches long. We are all doing great. It was a very fast and easy deliver...about 3 hours from start to finish! :) He has lots of brown hair and looks a lot like Ava when she was born. We'll post more pictures this afternoon.